Old Map of County Leitrim in 1685 by Petty - Carrick-on-Shannon, Jamestown, Down Survey Size:16x20 inch - UNFRAMED indigenous heritage

indigenous heritage

this piece ignites conversation around legacy

a decade that would go on to empty much of its countryside through death and emigration

and agricultural landscapes

Old Map of County Leitrim in 1685 by Petty - Carrick-on-Shannon, Jamestown, Down Survey Size:16x20 inch - UNFRAMED indigenous heritageThis detailed political and physical map of County Leitrim was produced in 1685 by Sir William Petty, based on his Down Survey of Ireland, the first detailed land survey carried out on a national scale anywhere in the world, completed between 1656 and 1658. Petty was a remarkable figure in his own right, a surgeon general, professor of anatomy at Oxford, inventor and economist whose statistical work later earned him recognition as one of the founders